WAGES AND HONESTY.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sin,—lt was an ill-advised remark that was made by one of the speakers at •ho Conciliation Council the other day that, the youths employed as grocers’ assistants were " entitled to higher wages because they had to l;e honest." Underlying those words is (ho suggestion that an employee’s sense of honesty should bo largely determined by the amount of his pay. Such could not be considered a very high principle in anybody. I take it that a person should be honest even if honesty meant loss; and there is no fear of a ‘‘youth ’’ losing his reputation if ho leans -.trough towards honesty in handling the goods t, r money of his employer. It is very notice able, -’.nd rather disquieting in these days, that , (he_ moral fibre is becoming considerably dmiod ; and there is not the sensitiveness concerning dishonest practices that there used to be.---I am, etc., October 6. Surprised.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 10
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